RE:First Report from Show, Showing Nuggets GeoD,
This article from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH, 3 Oct 2018) talks about cutting out of the specimen slab near the end of the article (near the picture of MS holding a gold specimen with both hands...must be heavy, it could be specimen Sylvie 4kg in the 2 Oct 2018 release. Notice that the specimens in front of the 4 fellows in the NR now have names, just like names for your pet rocks, King Henry is 93kg, Warren 63kg).
I have some difficulty following his description in the SMH article about "the golden end of a drill hole taht look like a golden rose" in his presentation/interview in Perth? Can someone draw a picture of what MS was talking about? So, they are cutting that
big piece of gold out in a specimen slab (MS said it's big...how big is it?)...and they were talking about the slab cutting in the 2 Oct NR (website) as well.
My guess: They are carefully remove the high grade (could be solid gold) specimen by drilling/chiselling out the specimen (in a slab), instead of blasting the thing out. Once the (precious) specimen has been removed (in one large piece which can fetch more money in an auction) then they can go back and do the blasting (air leg mining) which may blow specimens to pieces?
GH11
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